Mar Benyamin Shimon XXI

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Mar Binyamin Shimon XXI (Syriac: ܡܪ ܒܝܢܝܡܢ ܫܝܡܘܢ) was a Catholicos Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. He was born in 1887 in the village of Qochanis in the district of Hakkari, former Ottoman Empire (now in Turkey). He was consecrated a Metropolitan on March 1, 1903 by Mar Rowil, the Catholicos Patriarch who died on March 16, 1903. He succeeded his predecessor at the age of eighteen and occupied the patriarchal See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon at Qochanis for 15 years. In March, 1918, he was assassinated by a Kurdish paramilitary group under a truce flag.

[edit] See also

• Assyrian Church of the East
• Assyrian Church of the East's Holy Synod
• Assyrian people
• Assyrian Language
• List of Assyrians
• List of Patriarchs of Babylon

[edit] External links

• "Patriarchs of the East" at friesian.com